Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:23:00 -0700 From: <soralx@cydem.org> To: <ps@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware/driver incompatibility ? Message-ID: <20070704222300.73c53161@soralx> In-Reply-To: <468C68D4.1060903@freebsd.org> References: <7D3EA7E7-CF83-4385-A8FC-611B886CC7E3@patpro.net> <20070627214300.319cbe41@soralx> <468C68D4.1060903@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:43:16 -0700 Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> wrote: > The WD5000YS issues are due to a firmware bug > http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=15&swid=57 No RAID, bad sectors. BTW, RAID would have been of little help here, as both of the disks failed at about the same timeframe. Even the "bad" LBAs were close :) [and no, I don't have a PSU|heat|vibration|etc problem: other 3 HDDs (Seagates and Fujitsu) hooked up to the same machine work perfectly well to this day]. Read recent reviews/comments. > > Western Digital harddisks are notoriously unreliable (I just had 2 > > WD5000YS fail recently, at about the same time; one had ~200 hrs on > > it, the other ~1700h), especially the YS models. Also, WDC won't > > replace them... Beware. > > > > [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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